#dysentery

[covid-safer-hotties]

Dysentery Outbreak in Oregon Leaves at Least 40 Sickened — and Likely Many More, Experts Say

The surge in the extremely contagious bacterial illness in Portland is linked to the number of people experiencing homelessness.

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Yes, that dysentery:

Only this kind has mutated drug resistance. Hooray!

[regretfullyemily]

You have died of dysentery

[ollyvoile]

What’s your favorite common medieval disease/virus/infection?

Cholera

Dysentery “the flux”

Typhus or Typhoid

Tuberculosis

Bubonic Plague (black death)

Leprosy

Influenza (flu)

Smallpox

STD (Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia…)

Other (tag or comment!)

Voting ended onDec 14, 2023

Add your reasons, if you like!

Other people have added these:

• Yellow fever @notoverjoyed

• Scurvy @monitorchakas

• Lymph disease @wyrmalien

• Diphtheria ( I couldn’t fit this one)

• Malaria “ye olde marsh fever” @bombadilbaddie

• Scrofula “The King’s Evil” @hasturswig

Edit for all the people telling me “uhhh tuberculosis still exists”: I know! :) In fact, all of these sicknesses still exist. In the modern world we live in, however, most of these are only prevalent in developing countries, and certainly not to the extent they once were.

[hyper-alice]

Dysentery World is too good for a song about The Shitting Disease

[rejoice-in-moribund]

Dysentery / Gutrot - Excruciatingly Euphoric Torment (2004, Amputated Vein Records)

[dougielombax]

Greg Bovino looks like some sort of Bosnian Serb fascist war criminal who died from dysentery in an Albanian prison cell in the mid-2000s.

I’m serious.

The resemblance is uncanny.

Grigorije Bovinović.

Idk.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Most of my friends and all of my enemies died of dysentery.

[kwailaliliicomics]

Inktober 2025 Day 24 Rowdy

Sure, The Witchlight crew is probably more rowdy, but… 🔔 I must away